Keeping Faith: A How To Guide
Keeping Faith: A How-To Guide explores how women keep faith - in ourselves, in each other, in a cause, or in religious faith - so you can learn how to keep faith too. Each episode, we’ll be interviewing a different guest, some names you know and some you should know, to find out what keeping faith means to them.
Keeping Faith: A How-To Guide is a podcast from Womens' Interfaith Network, a women’s charity bringing together all faith’s and none, as part of our 2024 Keeping Faith Programme. Find out more at https://www.wominet.org.uk/
Hosted by Maeve Carlin
Produced by Maeve Carlin and Adam Brichto
Edited by Adam Brichto
Executive Produced by Lady Gilda Levy
Theme music composed by Jamie Payne.
Logo designed by Jasey Finesilver
Podcast support from Tara Corry
Episodes
22 episodes
Keeping Faith in Healthcare with Neelam Heera-Shergill
Content Warning – This episode includes personal stories of miscarriage, birth trauma and health inequalities. Please listen with care and access support if you need it via the links below. What does it look like to ...
Keeping Faith: A New Book From Women's Interfaith Network
Can harnessing our creativity become its own act of resistance? What does it mean to keep faith in justice in unjust times? And can one person really make a meaningful difference?This week, WIN is launching our new book of women’s writin...
Keeping Faith on the Frontline with Mariia Korolchuk
Content Warning – This episode references Gender-Based Violence, including sexual abuse, as well as mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and disordered eating. Please listen with care.How has the war in Ukrai...
Keeping Faith in Creativity with Ada Jusic
How can art help us tell important stories that all too often go unheard? What would it look like to truly value and prioritise creativity in our communities? And how do we keep faith in welcome for migrants and refugees, against the backdrop o...
Keeping Faith In Each Other with Paulina Tamborrel (Citizens UK)
How do we bridge the gap between the world as it is and the world as we believe it should be? Can the arts help communities move through trauma to work for social change? And after a year of asking women from across communities what keeping fai...
Keeping Faith Together with Dr. Debbie-Weekes Bernard (London's Deputy Mayor for Social Justice and Communities)
Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of gender-based violence, including femicide. Please listen with care. How did the pandemic shine new light on the role of faith and interfaith groups in the volunt...
Bonus Episode: Foujan Jenner (Barnet WIN)
In our bonus episodes, we speak to women from our Women's Interfaith Network (WIN) community to share their stories and give their own unique perspectives on keeping faith. In our sixth bonus episode, Foujan Jenner, from WIN’s Barne...
Keeping Faith in The Future with Dianne Danquah (The Equality Trust)
What do young activists want us to know about the issues that matter to them? What impact is systemic inequality having on their lives and communities? How do we all keep faith in the future, while also creating spaces to voice our fears and un...
Bonus Episode: Santosh Behl (Gants Hill WIN)
In our bonus episodes, we speak to women from our Women's Interfaith Network (WIN) community to share their stories and give their own unique perspectives on keeping faith. In our fifth bonus episode, Santosh Behl from our Gants Hil...
Bonus Episode: Averil Pooten-Watan (Waltham Forest WIN)
In our bonus episodes, we speak to women from our Women's Interfaith Network (WIN) community to share their stories and give their own unique perspectives on keeping faith. In our fourth bonus episode, Averil Pooten-Watan from WIN’s...
Keeping Faith in Justice with Sahdaish Pall (Sikh Women's Aid)
Content Warning – This episode contains descriptions of Gender-Based Violence, including Harassment, Femicide and Domestic, Sexual, Spiritual and Financial Abuse. Please listen with care.What does it look like to shine a ...
Bonus Episode: Lucy Calcott (East Sussex WIN)
In our bonus episodes, we speak to women from our Women's Interfaith Network (WIN) community to share their stories and give their own unique perspectives on keeping faith. In our third bonus episode, Lucy Calcott from WIN’s East Su...
Keeping Faith in Listening with Dr. Rageshri Dhairyawan
Why do so many women and marginalised communities feel silenced in medical settings? How do we keep faith in ourselves when we feel we aren’t being heard? Can we empower patients and providers to make sure everyone feels listened to in healthca...
Keeping Faith in Change with Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin
Can we keep faith in meaningful institutional change, even when we can't see the way forward? How can we shift the narrative around migration to one that centres compassion? And what does it look like to really live our values? We unpac...
Keeping Faith in Leading with Zara Mohammed (Muslim Council of Britain)
How do you keep faith in yourself as a leader while balancing the high expectations and intense media scrutiny that come with being ‘first’? What do we mean by ‘systemic Islamophobia’ and where does it lead? Can we still find reasons to laugh, ...
Bonus Episode: Marion Waruguru (WIN CEO)
In our bonus episodes, we speak to women from our Women's Interfaith Network (WIN) community to share their stories and give their own unique perspectives on keeping faith.In our second bonus episode, WIN's CEO Marion Waruguru shares her...
Keeping Faith in Magic with Dr. Linda Woodhead
How has magic become such a mainstream part of our spiritual landscape, from #WitchTok to astrology apps? Can these practices offer safe spaces for women and young people who feel that established faith institutions have left them behind? What ...
Keeping Faith in Humanitarianism with Sandrine Tiller (Doctors Without Borders)
As crisis after crisis demands our attention, how can we hold onto our compassion and find meaningful ways to make a difference? Who do we trust when ‘fake news’ can travel the world through a tweet or WhatsApp chain? And how do we keep faith i...
Bonus Episode: Lady Gilda Levy (WIN Chair)
In our bonus episodes, we speak to women from our Women's Interfaith Network (WIN) community to share their stories and give their own unique perspectives on keeping faith.In our first bonus episode, we spoke to WIN's chair and co founde...
Keeping Faith in Community with Hadiya Masieh
Note: The WIN community is shocked and heartbroken by the loss of our friend Hadiya Masieh on January 22nd 2026. You can find out more about her work and support her colleagues at the Groundswell Project via the links below. <...
Keeping Faith in Peace with Robi Damelin and Laila Alsheikh (The Parents Circle Family Forum)
What does it mean to keep faith in peace and reconciliation after unimaginable loss? How can we sit with disagreements and different worldviews to find our common humanity? What can we do to ensure women’s voices are heard and uplifted in peace...
Keeping Faith in Climate Action with Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers
How do we keep faith in climate action when governments and corporations keep dragging their feet? How does a ritual described in the Torah help women navigate life’s transitions in 2024? How do we nurture open dialogue between communities with...